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McCloud getting looks on both sides of ball

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

Though RayRay McCloud III is classified as a running back he could play on either side of the ball in college.

The 2015 prospect from Tampa (Fla.) Sickles is a 5-foot-9, 166-pound threat with the ball in his hands, but he also has the tools to excel in the secondary.

Arizona and UMass like him as an offensive prospect but Kentucky disagrees.

"I speak to coach (Derrick) Ansley like once a week and he was telling me they want me for defense. They offered me as a DB. Coach Ansley keeps in touch with me and sees how I'm doing with my weight and how I'm working out," McCloud said.

McCloud visited UK last month while he was on a tour of schools that also took him to Louisville, Clemson, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Montel McBride and T.J. Harrell are prospects from the Class of 2014 that made that trip.

There was a camp going on at Kentucky while McCloud and the others from his area were on campus but he didn't participate.

"It was real nice there," McCloud said. "We didn't really get to see too much because we had to go and we were on the move. But from the stuff I've seen it was real nice. They kept everything organized with the football team."

Kentucky and every other out of state school has their work cut out for them because McCloud admitted he would like to stay in Florida. However, he said that he also likes the idea of meeting new people and experiencing new things, so that could give UK and others a ray of hope.

He plans to visit Georgia and Florida between now and the end of the summer.

http://kentucky.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1522105